Ibrahim Quraishi

Country

USA / The Netherlands

External Links

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAR9hbKAFvI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY7wtlp6aAc

Ibrahim Quraishi's Biography

Ibrahim Quraishi belongs to a new generation of conceptual artists who are challenging our understanding of visual performance and its relationship to the broader cultural perspective. Quraishi was one of the recipients of the first Ö1 Prix Jardin d’Europe Prize in 2008 for his Installation Islamic Violins at Kunsthalle. His work consciously examines the dynamics of "migration", dispossession and cohabitation within the highly rigid socio-political spheres of imagined communities. He does this within the contours of the visual arts context, while freely playing with the tensions between the complexity of the real and our longing for simplicity.

Ibrahim divides his time between New York, Lahore and Amsterdam while escaping the conventional rules of engagement in researching, teaching and sometimes creating works for places like Bastakiya Art Fair (Dubai), MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), National Museum of Singapore, Asia Society (New York), Kunsthalle Wien /ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Japan Foundation (Tokyo), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), The Kitchen (NY), iDANS Istanbul, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival New York), Springdance (Utrecht), Biennale Bonn among others.